“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

dissatisfied with your

 

The mood was strange.

 

but they couldn’t take their eyes off one another

 

would turn around any minute now, storming out of the door if not taking swings at each other before that. Instead, it was

 

chest to

 

my appearance you’re at least not dissatisfied with, my

 

yourself. It just came out like that, it didn’t mean anything. There are a hell of a lot

 

here, then?

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

man came closer, as if there was still space left between them.

 

you don’t participate

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

and moving swiftly, the woman raked her fingers through the man’s hair and dug her nails into the back of his neck, pulling him close to

 

man was twice her size,

 

I was, who these people were, and why I was here, as I took in the scene of the man and woman’s

 

had been heating up for a while now, and the sounds of heavy breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came

 

romantic, yet macabre. Sad and hopeless

 

eyes turned

 

could not have seen me. I was only a ghost in this

 

that woman smiled

 

in my chest broke and smashed into pieces. The face I hadn’t been able to see previously finally

 

The woman was me.

 

Borgia, that’s you… That’s

 

Then, that man is…

 

was as if someone had turned

 

the room plunged into darkness. The man and the woman vanished and I lost myself to the shadows

 

***

 

eyes had me twitching, trying to blink

 

heavy feeling in my head. I tried to lift

 

I? Who got me here? What happened at

 

my eyes to my right, the feeling

 

I wanted to cry.

 

was overjoyed to see him safe and lying next to me, looking like he hadn’t just gone through hell and back, but there were no words coming from

 

him, taking him in, my eyes leaving no part of his face untouched. He did

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

 

whisper

 

anything. It felt like it didn’t really matter,

 

previous life and everything I had done in this life, all of it flashed before my eyes, like a

 

like a stranger in my own body thinking

 

the voice I answered him with was low and hoarse as well, a whisper I breathed out.

 

“What…?”

 

me. All I

 

something I knew very well, something that had revealed itself to

 

me once they realized I wasn’t what they had wanted me to be. When my brother had had enough of my sniveling and groveling and breaking down, when I wasn’t the perfect sister, always composed and worthy of the family name like

 

been like

 

“Always.”

 

it wasn’t me

 

situation where I’m hated without doing anything. I can’t

 

I pressed hard

 

kept on gazing at me with that same brokenhearted

 

fully, enveloping me in his warmth, but

 

my own arm around his wide torso and burying my head in the juncture where his shoulder and neck met, breathing in

 

my

 

but I didn’t remember it

 

it’s not your fault. It’s not

 

arrogant man,

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